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OTTAWA - In the lead up to his pre-election budget, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has been alerted by his department that Canadians' heavy debts have made abrupt shocks to incom...

Wind chill values of -40 C are expected to develop as a cold arctic ridge settles over Saskatchewan.Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for the northern half of the province and for ...

TORONTO - Seven months after a gunman went on a shooting rampage in Toronto's Greektown, survivors and victims' loved ones called on Ottawa to ban private ownership of handguns and assault r...

KANO, Nigeria - Some polling stations remained open in several states across Nigeria on Sunday while votes were counted in Saturday's presidential election, widely seen as a tight race between the pre...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis closed out his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse by vowing Sunday to confront abusers with "the wrath of God" felt by the faithful, end the coverups by th...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be pressured Monday to testify at a House of Commons committee looking into allegations the prime minister and his staff pressured former attorney gene...

WASHINGTON - William Barr has been attorney general for just one week but is on the cusp of staring down what will almost certainly be the most consequential decision of his long career: how much of t...

OTTAWA - Canada is a trailblazer when it comes to assisting women in humanitarian crises around the world, but far more needs to be done to improve outcomes for women and girls in conflict zones,...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A Newfoundland playwright says his failed two-year battle for a visa to perform in the United States speaks to the barriers facing independent artists telling diverse stor...

KABUL - More civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year than in any of the previous nine years of the increasingly bloody conflict, according to a U.N. report released Sunday, which blamed the spi...